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Building a Semantic Search Pipeline

From Raw Code to Intelligent Retrieval — Architecture, Embeddings, and Search at Scale

Free Ebook EPUB + Markdown By David Kelly Price

About This Ebook

Senior developers, ML engineers, and architects who want to understand the internals of semantic code search — embeddings, chunking strategies, indexing, retrieval, and ranking

What you'll learn:

  • Why Keyword Search Fails for Code
  • Code Embeddings: Turning Syntax into Vectors
  • Chunking Strategies for Source Code
  • Building the Index
  • Query Processing and Intent Understanding
  • Retrieval and Ranking
  • Evaluation and Quality Metrics
  • Scaling to Millions of Files
  • The Pyckle Approach

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